GENDER AFFIRMING VOICE TRAINING

For Voice Trainers and Independent Learners! This book presents a unique curriculum for gender affirming voice training that restructures common evidence-based practices using Water Resistance Therapy (WRT). Focusing on changing the sensory-motor memory process related to everyday voice, the curriculum emphasizes WRT as a semi-occluded vocal tract exercise that provides task-level scaffolding for exploring pitch, resonance, and prosody. Rooted in research, evidence-based practice, and learner report, the curriculum provides concrete steps and structured sessions that are safe, effective, and protective to the vocal folds and vocal tract. Color images are included for visual representation of how to control the variables at each step of the curriculum. Color images related to pitch charts, anatomy, and physiology of voice related to the curriculum steps are also included. Designed as a practical roadmap for independent learners and their voice trainers, this restorative voice curriculum helps support gender affirming voice changes that align with a speaker's gender identity, presentation, and expression.